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A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer

An animated film based on the novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an unobtain

An innocent womans search for her missing sister leads her into the infamous world of Marquis de Sade In a test of wills and wits, she must follow him to his chateau of sin to discover her sisters fate and to determine her own

A portrait of the artist L S Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion

Harald Edelstam uses his position as Swedens ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochets 1973 coup detat

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, former police inspector Muhsin al Khafaji has lost virtually everything He searches for one of the few things remaining in his life, his missing estranged elder daughter

A dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history

Without water, there is no life Join a young woman on a journey of a lifetime to reconnect to the source of water for her, and millions of others

During the fourteenth century when the Hundred Years War between France and England ends with the English occupation of French Aquitainia, rebel French Knights vow to oust Edward, Prince of Wales, ruler of Aquitaine

Diversity in video games is extraordinarily important especially to the people who play them Explore the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games

A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia

The Iliads story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint

On July 31, 2010in Brooklyn, New York, the first ever American Beatbox Championship took place Contestants of all races, from the north, south, east and west coast of the United States

In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished

Bring Us Your Women is an international anthology dedicated to women and the pursuit of divinity and freedom The project seeks to tell existing and re imagined stories of historic and mythical individuals, each presenting a message

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940 He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jackson Jackson befriends a young

About the life and death of the legendary SwedishAmerican agitator Joe Hill

Historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would be emperor of the Austro Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 A World War would start there, that some claim has not yet en

Defiant young activists take the womens suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening

In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals met in Rome to elect a new pope A 27 year old Spanish cardinal, Rodrigo Borgia, learns to play a very dangerous game how to survive his first conc

Dont build prisons, they cost too much In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough on crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented path by becoming a social justice leader with programs that rehabilitate offenders

How did tattoos go from something that was put on you to an expression that comes from within you That transformation is the subject of a new groundbreaking documentary film, TATTOO NATION

The Silent Movie Theater has been screening the films of the silent era for over 65 years It was almost lost to us completely when its previous owner, Lawrence Austin, was murdered in the

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agencys battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies

A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, depicted through non narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lords double When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place

During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi occupied France

Interviews and archival footage are used to tell the story of post war Broadway through the 1960s

In the middle of a broadcast about Typhoon Yolandas initial impact, reporter Jiggy Manicad was faced with the reality that he no longer had communication with his station They were, for all intents and purposes, stranded in Tacloba

Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement

Flake amp Flames is a fantastic adventure in to the Kustom Kulture movement around the globe The filmmakers seek out the hottest Kustom Kulture spots in U S, and Europe If you are new to Kustom Kulture you will experience what overwh

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war time Japan

When the blacksmiths daughter gets infected by the black plague, he must do everything he can to prevent her from the kings execution orders

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between the UK, France, Poland, Nazi Germany, and the U S S R from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britains declaration of war on Germany, caused by Hitlers invasion of Poland